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eck, General-in-Chief:
General Prentiss was attacked in force by the rebels, under Holmes and Price, at Helena yesterday.
He estimated the force at fifteen thousand.
I think nine thousand will ceenth Army Corps:
General: We have been hard pressed since daylight by the combined forces of Price, Holmes, Marmaduke, Parsons, Carter, Dobbins, and others.
Thus far we have held our own, and ha of slightly wounded, who were taken with them.
The rebels were under the leadership of Holmes, Price, and Marmaduke, the former in command.
Our forces were commanded by Brigadier-General F. Salomoements at Vicksburgh, is nevertheless an important one.
I think it has given a final quietus to Price's army, about which we have heard so much during the war. It is to be regretted that our force wlly directed the attack upon battery D, which was made by Fagan's Arkansas brigade, while Major-General Price directed that upon battery C.
At half-past 4 A.., a regiment moved from cover to attack

ng is more moderate to-day.
The fleet has kept up a pretty continued fire all day; the firing upon the ditches has been confined to skirmishers.
The loss of our brigade since the eighteenth of May in killed and wounded is two hundred and seventy-five.
We are still in reserve.
June 5.--The weather is very warm.
The bombardment with artillery is heavy; both land and water-batteries are engaged; the mortar-boats are reported to have been moved from the front of the city.
Rumor says that Price occupies Helena, but not credited.
June 6.--Day warm; firing moderate all day; the enemy can be seen moving to the left.
We hear that Loring engaged them at Black River.
June 7.--Very warm; we hear the engagement of the upper fleet; supposed to be at Milliken's Bend.
The mortar-boats are at work; the artillery kept up a fire the entire night.
June 8.--The mortar-boats have been engaged all day; the land firing was unusually moderate; occasionally a shell would make us hunt our hol

earing the flag of his regiment in front of the line.
Although severely wounded, he simply changed hands and continued to bear the national emblem, waving it before the men to encourage them to press forward.
Colonel Farnum, of the First, was shot in his foot, and his horse was badly wounded; but be refused to leave the field.
Major Mehan, of the First, and Major Burns of the Fourth, both had horses shot from under them, the former also suffering a severe contusion by his fall.
Captain Price, of the First, who was killed, was the author of the famous Homestead bill, and has a wide reputation in the country as the champion of homestead exemptions.
He was a brave and gallant soldier, much beloved by his command.
Lieutenant Preston, of the Fifth, who was also killed, was wounded at Chancellorsville.
He had just returned to his command, his former wounds having but recently healed.
General Prince, commanding the Second division, accompanied the Excelsior brigade in its c

it they should not go to war.
I know not what I am to do in future.
I have given up all idea of getting troops, and shall make no more applications.
The weather is very warm here now, and much sickness prevails.
I shall do every thing I can to preserve their health by scattering them around where they can get good water.
My cavalry are on the south side of the Arkansas.
I cannot raise over three thousand effective men for a fight.
Cooper has since been reenforced.
His morning report of the seventeenth, which I captured, showed five thousand seven hundred enlisted men present for duty that day. Unless he gets additional force, I can maintain my line to the Arkansas River; but if Price and Holmes, with what they had left after the Helena fight, should swing around this way, it will put me to my trumps.
However, the old man will do the best he can. It is better after all and under all the circumstances, than being a police officer in Kansas.
Yours truly, James G. Blunt.

tery B; company E the guns in battery C, supported by company H, acting as sharp-shooters; company B the guns in battery D, supported by companies G, I, and K, acting as sharp-shooters.
The first assault of the enemy in force was made at four o'clock A. M. upon batteries A, C, and D simultaneously.
In front of batteries A and D they were handsomely checked before any advantage had been gained, but the entire Missouri brigade of Parsons (said to have been personally directed by Major-General Sterling Price) charging furiously upon battery C, drove the infantry support (four companies of the Thirty third Iowa) out of the rifle-pits in great confusion, and after killing, wounding, and capturing thirty men of the two companies on duty at the guns, succeeded in driving them from the battery, but not before they had spiked one of the guns and brought away all the friction-primers and prilhing wires, thus rendering the pieces useless to the enemy.
The companies in For: Curtis, with the s

cessity of recrossing the river in the face of Price's army, and cutting his way back to Duvall's Bour troops, and lend to the superior forces of Price an enthusiasm which would prove but the foreruy.
The retreat upon Napoleon would have given Price an open road to Missouri, where we have no aden impassable river between its two wings, gave Price the opportunity of concentrating his whale fore from the opposite side of the river, in case Price should bring down a battery and plant it upon ent commander, to guard against an attack from Price's whole army.
There were innumerable roads, wwide detour in order to effect a junction with Price.
The entry of our troops into the city turns cavalry, dismounted, and Tappan's infantry.
Price was made aware of our crossing the moment it cround to the Arkadelphia road to a point where Price had six, hundred wagons parked.
To guard agaihen the command was turned over to Marmaduke.
Price by this time had discovered that there was no [14 more...]

united at Perryville, were attacked by General Buell.
The battle, like all of our contests, was obstinate and bloody.
Bragg, after severe losses, retreated through a comparatively barren region, and Buell was obliged to abandon the pursuit, by the complete exhaustion of all sources of supply.
The insurgent commander crossed the Cumberland Mountains, and then, marching westward, took up a position at Murfreesboro, fortified them, and proceeded to recruit his wasted forces.
Van Dorn and Price were at the same period in command of very considerable forces in Mississippi and Alabama, and to them was assigned the third part in the grand invasion of the loyal States, which the cabal at Richmond had decreed.
This was an attempt, as they called it, to deliver, but in fact to subjugate Western Tennessee and Kentucky. General Rosecrans received the assault of those portions of the insurgent forces at Corinth, defeated them with great slaughter, and drove them backward, so that they neit

re also on fire, but were saved by us. Part of the pontoons were also saved.
Six steamboats and one gunboat were entirely destroyed by fire.
We are informed that Price intended to have blown up the arsenal, but was pressed so close that he failed in this.
Our cavalry was too much exhausted to pursue the enemy's retreating coluof prisoners and causing the enemy to destroy part of his train.
Little Rock was formally surrendered by the municipal authorities on the evening of the tenth.
Price had undoubtedly intended to give us battle in his intrenchments, but was completely surprised by our movement across the Arkansas, and did not suspect it until aftg to cut off his retreat to Arkadelphia.
I have been assured by citizens that General Cabell with about four thousand (4000) troops, from Fort Smith, had joined Price on his retreat, he having failed to reach here in time to assist in defence of the place.
I marched from Ashley's Mills on the morning of the tenth with not mor

g, all the killing, and in fact every thing else that was done, excepting the straggling and stealing.
Colonel Woodson rode along at his ease some four or five miles in the rear, and did not reach Pocahontas with his command for nearly one hour .and a half after the First Missouri entered the place and captured Jeff Thompson and his staff, and when he did come up and was introduced to Jeff, we think, from the position he took during the ceremony, that he was in the same predicament that Sterling Price was at Boonville, Missouri.
We turned over eighteen contraband horses to the Quartermaster at Cape Girardeau, but we have never heard of any property being turned over by the M. S. M. or any other copperheads since we entered the department.
The reputation of our regiment for honesty, bravery, and efficiency, is too well know in this department to be injured by any attempt to screen the rascality of the M. S. M. by false reports.
We will close by making this proposition to Captain W

most of the stores and banks, and burned one hundred and eighty-five buildings, including one fourth of the private residences, and nearly all the business houses of the town, and, with circumstances of the most fiendish atrocity, murdered one hundred and forty unarmed men, among them fourteen recruits of the Fourteenth regiment, and twenty of the Second Kansas colored volunteers.
About twenty-four persons were wounded.
Since the fall of Vicksburgh, and the breaking up of large parts of Price's and Marmaduke's armies, great numbers of rebel soldiers, whose families live in Western Missouri, have returned, and being unable or unwilling to live at home, have joined the bands of guerrillas infesting the border.
Companies, which before this summer mustered but twenty or thirty, have now grown to fifty or one hundred.
All the people of the country, through fear or favor, feed them, and rarely any give information as to their movements.
Having all the inhabitants, by good will or co